The Trajectories Series are ephemeral, site-specific wall drawings created with beams of laser light.
The light beams intersect the wall at very
shallow angles, are rebounded by mirrors, and are dispersed by diffraction gratings which create a highly textured light beam.
A visual complexity is created, suggesting a high-tech prehistoric cave painting.

These pieces invoke the aesthetics of the physics lab.
These laboratories possess an almost religious sense of place, comprising darkened
churches of the scientific method while also having a more primitive and ritualistic cave-like atmosphere.

These pieces also evoke the ballistic trajectory of projectiles; bullets, artillery shells, and missiles.
They conjure the incandescent trail of tracer rounds, the path of anti-aircraft artillery or "triple-A",
or the luminescent trails of Iraqi Scud missiles and the American Patriot missiles
arcing up to intercept them.

I have also been influenced by the Rayonists who were concerned with decomposing objects into the
rays of light by which they make themselves visible. Drawing on their work is an example of how artwork which is
technologically based can be art historically referenced, employing discoveries made by prior generations of artists who
were responding to scientific discoveries of their era.

The intrinsic ephemerality of the pieces defies commodification. The drawing exists exclusively in the presentation space,
only for the duration of the installation. It has no persistence other than through evidentiary recordings.
There is no physical object to vend.